News & Announcements

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'We cannot prevent the occurrence of natural hazards, but we can prevent the loss of lives and damage to livelihood and properties if we make our communities prepared against earthquakes or any kind of disaster, said Senator Loren Legarda...
Senate of the Philippines
'The most important thing is ‘disaster imagination'. Too many people in our nation cannot imagine what might happen to them and if you can’t imagine something, you cannot prepare for it,' warned Kimuro Meguro, director of the International Centre for Urban Safety Engineering at Tokyo University...
Financial Times
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National Disaster Management Ministry Secretary Javaid Malik called on stakeholders to understand that forests in general are prerequisite to buffer natural disasters consequent to climatic changes and global warming...
Pakistan Today
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An UK government statement calls for householders at risk of flooding to take responsibility for preventing future damage to their homes despite the fact that this may not reduce the cost of their insurance or even guarantee that they can buy flood cover...
Guardian, the (UK)
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Stress tests were conducted in all 14 Member States that operate nuclear power plants to assess whether they can withstand the effects of natural disasters including earthquakes, flooding, extreme cold, extreme heat, snow, ice, storms, tornados, heavy rain and other extreme natural conditions...
Continuity Central, Portal Publishing Ltd
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'As the Hyogo Framework comes to an end, it is important to start thinking now about its replacement, which will guide us through the thicket of risks emerging in the urbanized, interdependent world of the twenty-first century,' writes Margareta Wahlström, Head of UNISDR...
Project Syndicate
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At the announcement, the Vietnamese Government said it has also ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol and is completing legal documents on the control and mitigation of natural disasters...
Tuoitrenews, Tuoi Tre Newspaper
The town of Minami Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture (Photo: Jerry Velasquez)
Almost one year ago Minami Sanriku was one of many coastal towns in the Northern Miyagi Prefecture that was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

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